Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson FRSwas an influential English mathematician and biostatistician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics, meteorology, theories of social Darwinism and eugenics. Pearson was also a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth27 March 1857
Karl Pearson quotes about
happy
We're really happy the way things are going.
curve hence remembered symbol toil twenty
Twenty years hence a curve or a symbol will be called as Pearson's, and nothing more remembered of the toil of the years.
statistics grammar
Statistics is the grammar of science.
investing records roulette
The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.
scientific-method way gains
There is no shortcut to truth, no way to gain knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of the scientific method.
class supposing-that mind
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.
encouragement hard-work goes-on
Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.